The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-09
NO. IL.
NOTED NEGRESSES.
Notorious Men Enough for a Few
Notorious Women of Color.
(From the Mail and ExnressN


(From the Mail and Expressly
Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune is one of the
ablest and best known colored men in
the country. He is man OF 35 or there
abouts, with keen, intellectual face and
quick interest in everything that con-
Germs the future of the colored people of
America. 'sTel me something" Mr..
Fortune was asked few days since,
"about the women Of your race who have
done the most for it and tor themselves.
"Colored women have hardly had op-
portunity to do much that is sensation
al," he replied. s'They haven't had
time. But still there ale several who
are prominent among their own people
and who have earned solid reputation.
Take Washington, for instance. Colored
women of the best class there don't take
much to marrying. They get along
better than the men, and usually devote
themselves to their work and succeed
well in it. The most prominent colored
women in Washington, In the best sense
of the word, are the teachers such
women as Miss NJ. B. Briggs, professor
OF English in Howard University, amogt
talented woman; or Josephine J. Iurpin,
Of the same school, who is a frequent
contributor to newspapers; or Lucy
Moulton, who is the efficient principal
of big training school; or Mary Male
or Marion Shadd-all highly cultured
women, respected and esteemed by
those who know them.
IsIn DI,;1a Il alpJ,io fbaro 10 The el,;1c,I
woman physician, Dr.. Caroline V. An
derson. She is the daughter Of William
Still, a wealthy colored merchant and
one of the directors OF the Underground
Railroad, Of which he has written the
history. His daughter is a regular
graduate Of the medical department of
Howard University and enjoys a big
practice. Philadelphis is the home of
other women of character and ability.
There Is Mrs. Fanny Jackson Coppin,
the lecturer, who devotes most of her
time to the institution for colored ycath
there, and Mrs. Gertrude Moselle, who
used to conduct the woman's depart
nent on the New York Freeman, and
who has written for the New York Times
and the Philadelphia Press as well as
Tor papers published in the interest Of
the negro race. Mrs. Moselle is mem
Der OF the Woman's National Press AS
sociation, the Only member Of her race.
Mrs. Frances E. Harper, the temper
ance lecturer and writer, has lived much
in Philadelphia also.
ssIn Boston one Of the best known
colored women is a modiste, whose eye
fer effects in fabric, form and color has
made her rich. Other colored women
who have wider reputation than anyof
these are Marie Seiika, the prima donna
soprano, who was born IN Natchez and
whose voice is OF such sweetness, purity
and compass that musical critics have
called her second only to Patti. Nine.
Selika has taken Gerster's place in the
concert in Boston, and has sung before
the crowned heads OF Europe.
MADAME Nellie Brown Mitchell is
another musician with q mechanical turn
of mind. She has invented and patented
two or three appliances now IL common
use by musical instructors. Equally
well in another branch Of the fine
arts is Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor.
She is an Afro-Indian, and was born IN
New York State, bat now has her studio
in Rome, where she has plenty Of COM
missions and has done some fine work.
The Old Arrowmaker and his Daughter
is one Of her best known productins and
is owned in England.
sIda B. Wells Iola'-whose suit for
damages uuder Mississippi laws for be-
ing forcibly thrust out of a passenger car
in Memphis by three or four white men
brought her before the public few
years ago, IS probably the best known Of
colored women journalists, and Miss NJ.
E. Lambert IS a poetess of genius. The
wife of the Rev. Frank Grimke, Of
Jacksonville, Fla, formerly a Miss
Forten, of Philadel phia, is young wo-
man, but already widely known"
I asked Mr.. Fortune if he knew any
colored women who we're reputed
wealthy, but he did not seem especially
interested in that branch of the subject,
and respected his reticence. It would
not be difficult, however, to pick out a
dozsn colored women in the country
whose property in the aggregate might
be expressed con information and be-
lief" By seven figures. La such a list
would come the Gloucesters, the rich
boarcing-house keepers of Brooklyn;
Miss Amanda Eubanks, Of Rome, Ga,
whose white father LETT her $40, 900; Mrs.
Mary a. Wilson, a wealthy Florida wo-
man; Mrs. Mary Peasants, Of San
francisco, who holds something more
than, $50 700 in Government bonds,
owns s ranch and has some city real
estate; Mrs. James Thomas, OF St.
Louis, who is worth something like
$500, 900, and whose barber shop, the
s.Linden", is the most luxurious in the
country, and Mrs. Catherine Blake, who
owns the Kenmore Hotel at Albany,
which is reputed worth $3.50, 900. Miss
Drake, young colored woman OF Nash,
n. c., has taken the prize for the best
production of cotton ct all the State
fairs, aud other Afro-American women
are doing solid industrial work.
There are two colored women in the
ranks OF the law, Miss Florence Rsy, of
Brooklyn, and Mrs. N. S. Cary, Of
Washington. There is at least one col
ored minister, the Rev. Mrs. Freeman,
of Providence. There has been one
woman at the head Of newspaper pub
lished in the interest OF Afro-Americans,
Miss Carrie Bragg, who for some time
edited the Lancet, at Petersburg, Va.